Cookie policy

We use cookies to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website. By continuing your visit on the website, you consent to the use of cookies. You can deactivate cookies by changing the preferences on your website browser. Find out more about how we use cookies.

Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Consent to receive cookies

By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website or use certain functionalities.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.

To delete cookies from Internet Explorer 8 (other Internet browsers will vary) go to 'Tools' when the browser is open, then on the general tab click on delete browser history, then delete cookies.

What are the cookies doing and why?

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and usage reporting.

This is statistical data about our your browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify you.

Cookies enable us:

To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests.

To carry out research and development.

To recognise you when you return to our website.

Types of cookies

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Cookies used on our website

We use the following individual cookies on our website:

Cookie Name

Usage

_qca

The _qca cookie may use your computer’s IP address, pixel code, referring HTTP location, current HTTP location, search string, time of the access, browser’s time, any searches made on the applicable website, and other statistics in order to analyse log data from different websites and combine it with other non personally identifiable information to produce reports that are made available on the Quantcast.com website. This enables web publishers and advertisers to deliver audience segments that are appropriate for their products or services.

_ga

This is a Google Analytics cookie used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited.

_RequestVerificationToken

This cookie is an anti forgery token used to guarantee that form post will not be intercepted.

_bmap_dcm_dat

This is a targeted advertising cookie associated with a business-to-business marketing platform, formerly known as Bizo, which is now owned by LinkedIn.

_bizo_bzid

This is a targeted advertising cookie associated with a business-to-business marketing platform, formerly known as Bizo, which is now owned by LinkedIn.

_bizo_cksm

This is a targeted advertising cookie associated with a business-to-business marketing platform, formerly known as Bizo, which is now owned by LinkedIn.

_bizo_np_stats

This is a targeted advertising cookie associated with a business-to-business marketing platform, formerly known as Bizo, which is now owned by LinkedIn.

ASP.NET_SessionId

This cookie is used to create a unique session identifier (a random number specific to just your session on the website) so that we can store the data regarding your session. This cookie expires at the end of your session (when you leave the website) and will be removed when you close the browser.